Spring in Lingnan comes early. After Huineng returned south with the mantle of Zen taught by the five ancestors Hongren, because he was chased and killed by people of fame and fortune, he had to hide in the deep mountains and old forests around Lingnan Sihui and Huaiji.

In the meantime, I miss my mother at home, return to Xinzhou to visit my mother, and the famous people chase after me, in a hurry, carrying my mother, step by step, climb the towering Tianlu Mountain to live in seclusion, time flies, in a blink of an eye, I don't realize that it is the annual Spring Festival again.

Ah, Chinese New Year! You're coming quietly with light steps! It is an ancient folk festival and the most important festival of the year. In the development of thousands of years of history, some relatively fixed customs and habits have been formed, which have been passed down to this day.

From the 23rd year of the lunar month, people began to "busy the year": sweeping the house, washing hair and bathing, shopping for New Year's goods, preparing New Year's utensils, etc., all these activities have a common theme, that is, "farewell to the old and welcome the new".

On Chinese New Year's Eve, the whole family gathers together to eat the "reunion dinner", the elders distribute "New Year money" to the children, and the family sits together to "keep the New Year". When the first rooster crows sounded, firecrackers rang out everywhere, and the sound came and went, and the new year began. The next day, men, women, and children, rich and poor, wear festive costumes that they are usually reluctant to wear, greet the elders in the family for their birthdays, visit relatives and friends, greet each other for the New Year, congratulate each other, Wishing you prosperity, and the warm atmosphere of the festival is not only permeated in every household, but also full of villages and villages in various places, and in some places there are also customs such as lion dance, dragon lantern playing, and temple fairs. During this period, the visitors are weaving, lively and extraordinary, the grand occasion is unprecedented, until the Lantern Festival on the fifteenth day of the first month.

The Spring Festival contains the wisdom and crystallization of Chinese culture, embodies the life pursuit and emotional sustenance of the Chinese people, and inherits the social ethics of the Chinese people.

During the Spring Festival, like migratory birds, the sons and daughters who were away returned to their hometowns. No matter how far or near the road is, no matter the cold wind and drizzle, no matter whether you are rich or not. Every December, the path at the head of the village is crowded with the expectations of the elderly, warm and eager.

Every greeting, every string of laughter, surging with warm family affection!

Daddy, Mom, your baby is back!

The fragrant air of the fields is blowing in the face. The clear well water in my hometown, a sip has nourished my heart.

Before approaching the door, the sharp-eyed loyal old yellow dog had already run all the way to the front, gently holding the corners of his trousers and shaking his head and tail.

Smoke rose on the roof, and bacon, sausage, and duck under the eaves shone golden in the sunlight.

Raise a glass to celebrate the reunion and talk about family affection.

Huineng and his mother lived in seclusion in Tianlu Mountain, and the annual Spring Festival came as scheduled. It's true: the flowers are similar every year, and the people are different every year. The sound of firecrackers for the New Year in the distant villages urged the plum blossoms all over the mountains to bloom, and the bunches of good spring were written in the vast mountains and wilderness.

The plum blossoms of Tianlu Mountain in spring bloom with charming nature. The clusters of plum blossoms are so heart-warming, so festive, so gorgeous, and so delicate. The snow-white plum blossoms all over the mountains form a unique landscape, just like the unique scenery of "thousands of miles of ice, thousands of miles of snow drifting".

In this folk grand festival, every plum blossom on Tianlu Mountain has raised a warm smile, every wisp of fragrance has opened a warm feeling, and every petal has extended a sincere invitation, just like a plum blossom fairy with deep affection, standing on the branch waiting for friends who live in seclusion in the mountain.

Huineng walks in the clouds and mist, like a fairyland-like Tianlu Mountain, looking around, the plum blossoms that bloom all over the mountains and fields to welcome the cold come into view, a piece of white, magnificent. The plum blossoms that bloom on the branches are like beautiful plum fairies, and it is difficult to hide their charming fragrance even in the cold wind and misty deep mountains and forests.

Bursts of dark incense fluttering in the wind, making people's hearts sway, provoking Huineng to think leisurely, climb the ancient post road next to the "Tongtian Avenue" boulder that stands between the vast heaven and earth, and the thoughts in the sky are like the heavenly dew fairy spring rolling in...... reminded him of the past when he was a child, and spent the New Year with his father and mother.

I remember when he was two years old, Huineng's father taught him to write Spring Festival couplets and paste Spring Festival couplets.

Lu Xingyu first told Huineng about the origin of the couplet: as early as before the Qin and Han dynasties, the folk had the custom of hanging peach charms on the left and right sides of the gate every New Year. The peach talisman is made of peach wood with the names of the legendary gods "Shen Tu" and "Yu Lei" written on them, which are used to drive away ghosts and suppress evil spirits. It was not until the fifth dynasty that people began to inscribe the couplet on the mahogany board instead of the name of the god who subdued the ghosts. After that, every year of the year, people will hang peach charms to ward off evil spirits, welcome joy and receive blessings, which is the germ of couplets. In the fifth generation, the idol on the peach talisman disappeared and was replaced by a couplet. Meng Chang, the queen of Shu, once wrote a pair of "New Year's Yuqing, Jiajie Changchun", which is the earliest couplet in history.

"Paste the Spring Festival couplets during the Spring Festival, don't turn the upper and lower couplets upside down, and paste them in the order of the upper and lower couplets." After Lu Xingyu finished talking about the origin of the couplet, he cut into the topic of how to paste the Spring Festival couplets during the Spring Festival.

Huineng: "Daddy, how do you divide the upper and lower links?" ”

Lu Xingyao: "First of all, we must distinguish the upper and lower heads of the door. When facing the gate, the right-hand direction is the upper head, and the left-hand direction is the lower head. When pasting couplets, the upper link is pasted at the top, and the lower link is pasted at the bottom. ”

"Then how do you divide the upper and lower heads?" asked Huineng again.

Lu Xingyu said: "First of all, according to the tone. The Spring Festival couplets pay more attention to the tone of the flat voice, the last word of the upper couplet is the sound of the voice, and the last word of the lower couplet is the flat sound. ”

Huineng: "How do you distinguish between sound and voice?" ”

Lu Xingyao: "The sound is generally three or four. For example, the word "Qing" in the New Year's celebration is a voice. Flat tones are generally one or two tones. For example, the word "spring" in Changchun, the Jiajie number, is a flat sound. ”

Spring Festival, which means that spring is coming, Vientiane is reviving and renewing plants and trees. The long history of Chinese culture has given the Spring Festival too many connotations. Since the Tang Dynasty, in such a special time and space environment as the Spring Festival, it has given many literati and artists space to play their imaginations, leaving a lot of beautiful sentences:

The repetition of the unification is renewed

Hearing firecrackers from afar, knowing the age of the occasional plum blossom, feeling that it has been spring......

Things have changed, and after many years, Lu Xingyu read these popular Spring Festival couplets and was full of emotion.

Spring Festival is an ancient festival and one of the most important festivals of the year.

Huineng celebrated the New Year when he was a child, and the happiest thing was to look forward to the New Year, that kind of pious mood, that kind of urgency, and now he is still full of passion when he thinks about it. Wearing new clothes, setting off firecrackers, sticking Spring Festival couplets, eating dumplings, kowtowing to Ya Dad and Ya Niang, asking for New Year's money, visiting temple fairs, etc., on Chinese New Year's Eve, chasing the smell and sound of gunpowder when firecrackers are fired, carrying a large bowl full of rice balls and a group of friends, running east of the village to the west of the village, that kind of simplicity, that kind of liveliness, that kind of childlike fun, has been deeply left in the memory. When I grew up, these childhood dreams, which had been imprinted in my mind, consciously or unconsciously, became a unique and lingering image, deeply rooted in my heart.

Life is impermanent, with ups and downs. The Chinese New Year, looking back at the past and the present, sometimes as colorful as flowers, sometimes as winding as a river; Think about the road you have traveled, there are flowers, applause, thorns, and whirlpools; After so many years of seclusion in the mountains and wilderness, and now that I have reached the age of knowing the destiny of heaven, the experience of life will inevitably encounter many unforgettable people and things, and it is precisely because of these strange things and unforgettable people that life is more rich and exciting.

The Spring Festival is the most traditional festival for family reunions and good nights together. Home, family affection, and harmonious love constitute the source of the flavor of the year, day after day, year after year, rooted in the heart, endlessly.

Grinding rice noodles, rubbing glutinous rice cakes, and frying New Year's materials...... The sky of the village is wafting with the fragrant smell of the New Year.

On the night of Chinese New Year's Eve, the land temple and ancestral hall at the head of the village were full of people, in the fragrance and red candles, firecrackers rang out, and pious faces were full of good wishes: smooth sailing, double happiness, three sheep Kaitai, four seasons of peace, five grains of abundant harvest, six animals prosperous!

The big red couplets are pasted, and the festive New Year's pictures are pasted. The new plaque of the stove god in the kitchen is replaced, saying goodbye to the old and welcoming the new in the light of incense and candles.

stewed chicken, boiled pork knuckles; Lap-mei, the bonus is! The sky boiled at midnight on Chinese New Year's Eve in the village: the deafening sound of firecrackers, accompanied by the cheers and blessings of everyone, the new year quietly arrived.

On the first day of the Lunar New Year, put on new clothes, bring sincere blessings, and greet the elders. Say a few auspicious blessings, drink a few sips of home-brewed rice wine, taste a few sips of cured meat that has been stored in the sunshine for a winter, and the sincere blessings of the elders are like the clear yellow and transparent rice wine, warming the heart bit by bit.

The door of each house is covered with a thick layer of firecracker paper, reflecting the faces of the guests who come in and out.

At the head and end of the village, children setting off firecrackers can be seen everywhere:

Throw a lit firecracker into the pond, and a few seconds later there will be a burst of spray, accompanied by the cheers of children;

Stuff a firecracker into a glass bottle, light it with a thin incense fire, and with a "poof" sound, a wisp of light smoke slowly emerges from the narrow mouth of the glass bottle;

Or, plant a firecracker into the mud pile and let the dirt splash and bloom like a flower;

Or, throw a firecracker in front of your little friend and listen to his exaggerated screams.

Mountains and rivers laugh. The Spring Festival in the countryside is happy and innocent, like the spring breeze blowing from the fields, fresh, natural and full of hope for the year......

At this moment, Huineng is intoxicated with the joy of celebrating the New Year in his childhood......